The course “Information Security” is proposed for B.Sc. (Hons) Mathematics as the Generic Elective course with 4 credits. The course starts with the overview of security and its aspects. Then goes through the different threats, and methods to protect the information. This paper gives an overview of cryptography and discusses the various techniques related with it. The students who wish to enhance their knowledge on recent trends of IT and Computers and those who wish to understand the term information or cyber security are equally benefitted with the contents of this course
Overview
Syllabus
Week 1
Day 1 : Introduction to Information Security
Day 2 : Protection Vs Security
Day 3 : Aspects of security
Week 2
Day 1 : Security problems
Day 2 : User authentication
Day 3 : Orange Book
Week 3
Day 1 : Security threats
Day 2 : Program threats
Day 3 : Worms and viruses
Week 4
Day 1 : Trojan horse and Trap door
Day 2 : Stack and buffer overflow
Day 3 : System threats
Week 5
Day 1 : Communication threats
Day 2 : Introduction to Cryptography
Day 3 : Substitution techniques-I
Week 6
Day 1 : Substitution techniques-II
Day 2 : Transposition ciphers
Day 3 : Overview of symmetric key algorithms
Week 7
Day 1 : Data Encryption standard
Day 2 : Advanced Encryption standards
Day 3 : The AES Cipher
Week 8
Day 1 : Public Key encryption
Day 2 : RSA algorithm
Day 3 : The security of RSA
Week 9
Day 1 : Diffie-Hellman key exchange
Day 2 : ECC Cryptography
Day 3 : Message authentication
Week 10
Day 1 : Cryptographic hash functions
Day 2 : Digital signature
Day 3 : Symmetric key and Public key signature
Week 11
Day 1 : Message digests
Day 2 : Public key infrastructure
Day 3 : Security mechanisms-An overview
Week 12
Day 1 : Auditing and logging
Day 2 : Trip wire
Day 3 : System call monitoring
Taught by
Dr. Reshma P K
